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Carriage Boot Flap Hook.

No. 234,301. Patented Nov. 9,1880.

N.FETERS. PNOTO-LITHOGRAPNER WASHINGTON. D, C.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES F. LITTLEJOHN, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HARVEY FORD, OF SAME PLACE.

CARRlAGE-BOOT-FLAP HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 234,301, dated November 9, 1880.

Application filed September 13, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. LITTLE- JOHN, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Carriage-Boot Flap Hook; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a front view; Fig. 2, a side view; Fig. 3, the hook detached, perspective.

This invention relates to an improvement in the device used on carriage dash-boards as a means of fastening the boot-flap, the object being a simple and cheap construction, and ot such acharacter that the strain upon the fastener shall tend to make the fastening more secure; and it consists in the construction hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claim.

A represents the standing strap, and B the free strap, generally arranged with the stand- 2 5 ing strap above and free strap below.

To the standing strap a metal loop, 0, is attached, and to the free strap B a metal hook, D, of peculiar shape, is attached. This hook is made from a strip of sheet metal with a loop,

0 a, at one end, to which the free strap is secured.

The loop a is bent inward and the end d turned downward, so as to form a bearing-surface substantially in line, or slightly forward of the straight line of the strap. The bend e 3 5 of the loop portion is in rear of the loop a, or point where the free strap B is attached, as seen in Fig. 2.,

To engage the free strap with the standing strap, the hook or curved piece D is turned up, as in broken lines, Fig. 2, and the free end (1 40 of the hook passed through the loop 0 until the loop 0 reaches the bend 6. Then the hook is turned down to bring its end d against the free strap B, as seen in Fig. 2. This brings the line of pull or strain at the bend c and in rear 4 of the loop a, or point where the free strap B is attached, so that the strain tends to force and hold the end or suitable bearing-surface d down and against the strap B. To disconnect, reverse the operation.

This construction ofhook is simple and cheap, being in two parts only, and of such a nature that they may be readily struck and shaped in dies without the labor of placing the parts together, as required in the usual construction 5 where several parts are employed.

I do not broadly claim a boot-flap hook constructed so that the strain will tend to hold the hook in its closed condition, for such I am aware is not new; but

What I do claim is- A carriage-boot-flap hook consisting of the curved piece or body D, provided at one end with the inwardly-bent loop a and at the other with a suitable bearing-surface, and adapted 6 to be applied to one of the straps of a carriageboot, combined with a loop upon the other strap, substantially as described.

CHARLES F. LITTLEJOHN.

Witnesses:

JOHN E. EARLE, J. H. SHUMWAY. 

